Micro final diseases review

The plague

Caused by yersinic peptis; pneumonic plague= heart/lungs; septicemia plague= GI tract; bubonic plague= head

Cryptosporidiosis

Cryptosporidium parvum; water born

tuberculosis

Acid fast bacteria

mumps

affect pertoitary salivary glands

Varicella ( chicken pox)

varicella zoster virus

small pox

caused by variola virus

Tularemia

Tularenesis is the most common type

Influenza (associated pediatric mortality)

known as the flue; deadly to kids

Rubella

also known as German measles

Malaria

A disease caused by mosquitoes implanting parasites in the blood; plasmodium

Salmonellosis

salmonella cholarius; genus typhi

Ebola

Found in Zaire the Ebola river valley

Lymes Disease

Bacteria is borrelia burgdorferi

meningitis

inflammation of the meninges

Rabies

virus is bullet shaped

MRSA

methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus

Aids

HIV is the virus; immunotropic retro virus

Hepatitis B

Liver infection

Measels

koplack spots

toxic shock sydrome

streptococcus pyogenes

Zika Virus

RNA virus, spreads through mosquitos, microencalphyl

West Nile Virus

encephalitis; primary host is mosquitos